Mail not arriving at destination address.

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Hi there, I installed Virtualmin and Webmin via the install.sh script on a fresh install of Debian Etch 4.0 and all apparently went well. Sites setup fine but I am having a mail problem. I was not able to send or receive mail so I searched the forums etc and found this thread

http://www.virtualmin.com/index.php?option=com_flyspray&Itemid=82&do=details&task_id=4233

I updated clamav as suggested and I can now receive email. The only problem I seem to have now is when I send email which seems to go off fine, it never arrives at it’s destination and I don’t get any error messages. It just seems to disappear.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

David

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Hey David,

When you send a message, do you see anything regarding it in /var/log/mail.log? Even if there’s not an error, do you see anything suggesting that the remote server accepted it?

In fact, you’re welcome to go ahead and send me a message, you can email “eric@virtualmin.com” with a subject along the lines of “Virtualmin Test Message” – I’ll let you know if I see anything odd.

And if it doesn’t come through, the mail.log file should be helpful in tracking down what the issue is.
-Eric

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Does not even seem to send today? Still receiving the spam well enough though.

Last 20 lines of mail.log here…

http://pastebin.com/m22e542b5

There are a lot of addresses in there that mean nothing to me?
I have tried changing the smtp port from 25 to 587 etc and it no different.

Thanks,

David

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It looks like Postfix isn’t starting up properly, as it’s giving this error when starting up:

/usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup – throttling

It could be a number of problems – I can toss out a few of them if you like (saslauthd may not be running, private/auth may not be available to Postfix, etc), or if you like I can log in over SSH and correct it.

If you’d like me to take a look, you can email me your login details at eric@virtualmin.com – I’d need the ip address or hostname, root password, and perhaps the login details for an email user. Also, include a link to this forum post in the message if you can :slight_smile:

Thanks,
-Eric

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Sure thing, thanks. Will send an email with the details.

Thanks

David

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Okay, we did get this working earlier today, but just to recap –

Postfix seemed to be upset over a missing private/auth file. Oddly, I’ve only ever seen this come up on Debian systems (and not Ubuntu). What I did to fix it was add this to the Dovecot.conf in the “auth default” section:

mechanisms = plain login

socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}

I also edited /etc/postfix/master.cf, and uncommented the sections for Submission and Smtps.
-Eric